Lewis Hamilton Is World Champion

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: November 2nd, 2008 | 0 Comments

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The last race of the Formula 1 grand prix 2008 was a nail biting one. Hamilton had to come in 5th place or higher in order to become the world champion.

Just before the race was schelduled to start it suddenly started to rain, it was completely unpredictiable, the beginning of the race was put back for 10 minutes in order to allow the teams to make any necessary changes to there cars to make them cope with the wet conditions.

It was an extremly tense few laps at the start because they potentially make the result of the entire race.

Hamilton started forth on the grid.

A few laps before the end of the race the rain was starting to pick back up, it made a very difficult decison on all the drivers weather ot not they should pit for intermediate tyres.

Hamilton decided to pit and then when he rejoind the race he was in fifth just after Timo Glock who decided to stay out on dry tyres. Then as a complete shock to everyone on the last lap Sebastian Vettel overtook Hamilton putting Hamilton into 6th which would have lost him the world champion status.

Ferrai began to celebrate there victory since Hamilton had been knocked out of the win, this would of made Felipe Massa the World Champion.

However Ferrai's celebration was shortlived as moments later Timo Glock's pace began to decrease due to the increasing rainfall, this gave Hamilton the gap he needed to get back into 5th and grab the world championship status.

Although hamilton did not come first in this last race of the season it gave him the points he needed to become the overall winner. The race winner was Felipe Massa

In conculsion it was a brilliant nail biting race with a desevring overall winner, Lewis Hamilton. He is now the youngest World Champion F1 Driver.

Hamilton back on track

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: July 7th, 2008 | 0 Comments

Last Sunday (July 6th) the F1 Grand Prix was on at Silverstone, and of course i was routing for Lewis Hamilton.

Hamilton immediately overtook the few cars on front of him to take the position behind his teammate Hekki Kovalainen who was in the lead, a few laps later the crowd began cheering Hamilton on to overtake, after he successfully took 1st place Hamilton continued the race by keeping cool and calm.

The race was not easy in any way at all, because the weather was terrible, it kept raining on and off for the whole race which caused the track to become very wet and slippery and full of puddles, which resulted in the racers having to take extra caution. A lot of cars began to spin on the track because of the loss of traction due to the bad weather.

Hamilton went on to finish the race and took first place on the podium followed by Heidfeld in second and Barrichello in third. The overall results now has three leaders all on 48 points however Hamilton is actually in first place.

It has also been announced that the British grand prix will be taking place in Donington Park from 2010.